Thats like a picture I saw that was retweeted a bunch of times today. It showed a picture of a handgun and said above it how many deaths were from handguns in the US and other countries, then said ban all handguns. I just can't wrap my head around how that makes sense to anyone.

Oh look, 22 children were STABBED today in china. Only guns kill lots of people though...

We already went over this but I'm glad to again. No one died in the China attack. The basic situation was the same but no one died. So between those two incidents, yes, only guns killed a lot of people. That is the rather huge difference between guns and knives in a nutshell.

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Thats like a picture I saw that was retweeted a bunch of times today. It showed a picture of a handgun and said above it how many deaths were from handguns in the US and other countries, then said ban all handguns. I just can't wrap my head around how that makes sense to anyone.

Handguns are far and away responsible for the most firearm murders in the US, so there is plenty of meat there.

Time line of school violence in the U.S going back to the 20's. Yep there were a couple of stabings, a slashing and a few just listed as "killed." But the majority of these were commited using fire arms. Interesting.

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I think it was a bad point since they were using the amount of deaths as a reason to ban them. Using that logic, alcohol should be banned.

Alcohol has myriad other uses than causing death, and its point of manufacture is not to cause death. Regardless, Alcohol is tightly regulated and alcohol addiction is treated as a public health concern. But nobody even wants to talk about guns because it's politically risky.

Guns are not created to perform mass killings with though, that's a misuse. Plus banned or not, people will get their hands on guns. All banning them will do is keep them out of the hands of citizens who want to use them correctly.

Alcohol has myriad other uses than causing death, and its point of manufacture is not to cause death. Regardless, Alcohol is tightly regulated and alcohol addiction is treated as a public health concern. But nobody even wants to talk about guns because it's politically risky.

The Right of the People to Keep and bear arms has been reaffirmed by the U.S Supreme Court...no reason to keep discussing it.

BRB going to QT then across the street to home depot. I can make a HME with 1/10 of the money to buy an AR-15 and hundreds of rounds of 5.56.

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